Better DWARF info for Cmm procedures?

[Ben Gamari]

Ömer Sinan Ağacan <omeragacan at gmail.com> writes:

>> However, there is also a slightly more fundamental issue here: GHC's NCG
>> handles DWARF information with block granularity. Fixing this will be a
>> bit more involved. See compiler/nativeGen/Dwarf.hs for details.
>>
>> One alternative would be to just finish debug information in the LLVM
>> backend and use this instead (originally D2343, although mpickering has
>> a newer version).
>
> But LLVM backend also uses the same debug info we generate for NCG, no? So I
> think debug info would still be in block granularity?
>

> How hard do you think it would be to do the refactoring to generate debug info
> for each Cmm source line, instead of each RawCmm block?
>
I was under the impression that 
the C-- AST can already capture debug information with arbitrarily fine
granularity. However, after looking again at the implementation it looks
like you raise a very good point: CmmTick nodes apparently cover the
entire block they reside within. This is indeed a problem.

I honestly don't know how hard it would be to fix this without serious
surgery to the C-- pipeline. It doesn't sound particularly easy.

Cheers,

- Ben
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